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The Nine Astoundingly Clear Parallels between People Who Exercise and Successful Entrepreneurs
They Basically Mirror One Another
If you work out regularly and would consider yourself ‘fit’, chances are you’d make a good entrepreneur. And if you are an entrepreneur, taking care of your health and fitness will be second nature and frankly, mandatory for your mindset as a stress outlet, energy generator, and tool to keep you disciplined and ready to take over the world.
Business skills can be learned, but a winner’s mindset is more difficult and only develops with time, trials, and failure, a lot of failure. Here are the parallels between fitness and business.
1/ Goal Setting
Fit people and entrepreneurs are always setting clear, measurable (“SMART”) goals for their next fitness/business level.
2/ Tracking and Measuring
Fit people and entrepreneurs track their progress like crazy. They always know where they are at, how much they’ve progressed, and how much further they are from their next goal.
3/ Self-Motivation
Fit people and entrepreneurs keep putting in the work and motivating themselves to keep going. Just a little bit further. Until one…
